@ben, this would go to verified users by the server admin. Really not that hard to only give him permissions.

There are plenty of influencers, and even global companies on discord, i run two crypto businesses with over $200K in holdings. so i think you just don't realise how much discord is actually used for business.

I have to ban 1-2 scammers, every single day, because user names are not unique.

just because you don't see a use, doesn't mean there is none. It's realitive easy to only portrait the badge if you are actually on the server where the badge person is dming you from.

It's funny that a per server avatar gets upvotes, and a serious issue wtih identity control gets 9 downvotes.....

You can use server roles to indicate if an individual is "verified" or not and manage business transactions through your discord server (instead of DMs) or through another website. A Discord-wide verified badge would suggest that the individual is verified directly by Discord (like tristanflakes said) and that wouldn't be the case (from what I understand)

As a workaround the verified person could like another verified platform. For instance you can link a Twitch, Twitter, Reddit, Xbox, Steam, Battle.net, and I think even a Youtube account as 'verified' which uses the oAuth authentication protocol where you have to login to that platform which then logs into discord and chose a verified symbol on their discord profile so another user can go to the user info tab and look there.